planned last month, unlawful migration from cuba, haiti, nicaragua and venezuela has come down 97% as a consequence of that. but american border problems won t be fixing fixed until congress acts. if we don t pass my comprehensive immigration reform, at least pass my plan to provide the equipment and officers to secure the border. [applause] and a pathway to citizenship for dreamers those with temporary status, farm workers, essential workers. here in the peoples house and so, our duty to protect all the people s rights and freedoms. congress must restore the right [inaudible] order, order! congress must restore the right that was taken away in roe v. wade and protect roe v. wade.
this is bound to get a response from my friends on my left, but the right. i am so sick and tired of companies breaking the law about preventing workers from organizing. that s the pro-act! it is business have a right workers have a right to form a union. and let s guarantee all workers have a living wage. let s make sure working parents can afford to raise a family with sick days, paid family and medical leave, affordable childcare. that will enable millions more people to go and stay to work. let s restore the full child tax credit, which gave tens of millions of parents some breathing room and cut child poverty in half almost to the lowest levels in history. by the way, when we do all these things, we increase productivity, we increase economic growth. so, let s finish the job and give more families access to
and that, actually, i think, was structurally unique in terms of the way presidents i find it very moving. but to spend to have somebody there yeah, there s going to be a bunch of people. and you tag them in order to make a point. i got it. it s okay to do that with bono. it s not okay to do that with a mother who has just lost their son. the difference between biden and a lot of these you know that he spent a lot of with that woman. you can feel that he has spent actual time with the people he invited, that he made a personal connection. because literal literally, that s what biden-ing is. there s this thing that he is trying to do. and you see the in the agenda. and joy, you mentioned this before. to the extent there was something in the trump critique of the post nafta neoliberal order, the hollowed out hounds, the fact that manufacturing went away, the fact that you used to be able to get a job without a college degree. and there was something to that part of the cr
it is up to us, to all of us. we all want the same thing. neighbors free of violence. law enforcement who earns the communities truss trust. able to go home at night, so does everybody else have their. [applause] but children have a right to come home safely. equal protection under the law is a covenant we have with each other in america. we know officers put their lives on the line every single day. and we know we asked them in many cases to do too much to be counselor, social workers, psychologists, responding to drug overdoses, mental health crises and so much more. in one sense, we ask much too much of them. i know most cops and their families are good, decent, honorable people, the vast
0 calm, steady place to work. it has been. what i would say is remarkable about it is that nobody left during the first two years, and that nobody has left since republicans took control of the house. many of them know that they will be the subject of an impeachment inquiry from the house. they are still there. secretary mayorkas, probably the first target. he is walking into listen to the president speech tonight, and there s no indication that he s leaving. that s actually pretty remarkable, given what they know they re going to face. you see the secretary here, the aforementioned secretary mayorkas, 1000 people in that room. i have to say, i know this is wrong, but it does give me to see the average age of that room, and see precisely one mask. i realize we re in a different position, but these are a lot of very important, very powerful for the most part, very old people. there are 1000 of them in the room, and they re going to be in their screaming together for several hours,